Why am I so scared of the name?!

Maybe scared isn't the right word. So our baby boy is due in a week (first baby). We have a Scandi name (husband is Swedish) and I like it! It's strong and unusual. And it's the only one I got interested/excited about when searching through the same 10 baby boys names. But I care SO much about what others think, that I get nervous at the idea of announcing the name. Is this ridiculous? Or normal? Is it a warning I should take note of? I wish I could be less of a conformist Look, it's not saddling baby with a freaky name, it'll be fine be on his CV and our families love the name. I just have a morbid fear of other people scoffing/being derisive about the name. Then again, my friend told me people had an opinion (sometimes negative) even on the most common/sensible of names with her boy! I've even considered asking UK adults with this name (Facebook) how they felt/feel about it. Which I know is mental. Aaaaaargh!

Thanks everyone. I'm hoping I'll become a proud mama bear and e proud of the name rather than caring about everyone else (I'm like this with many things- "appearance" matters way more than it should). Anyway. I know I always like to know the names on such threads. So it's Magnus! With a scandi surname

You can get the most boring, conformist name in the universe and for all you know your dc will move abroad and the name will be positively offensive/unpronounceable there.

We worked really hard on ds1's name, as I needed it to work in the three languages he'd have to function in. By the time he was 3 he'd decided he hated it and insisted on being called a nickname that really, really didn't work in the language of the country we were living in at the time. Frankly, it mattered not a damn, but we did get a few funny looks.

Magnus is a terrific name. Not too trendy although it is popular, it has been around a while. Magnus Pike and Magnus Magnusson were TV personalities in the 70s or 80s IIRC.It's a pleasant sounding name, not difficult to spell or pronounce. It's a winner.

Magnus is really great, especially as he has a Swedish father so it reflects part of his heritage. If you care a lot about others' opinions then please take mine as a positive! And good luck for the arrival of baby Magnus .

Just lovely. And fuck what everyone else thinks! I remember my step mother telling me that she’d pretended to her neighbours that I’d called my son something different because she was ‘embarrassed’ to tell them his name. Obviously I love his name. She told me a different time that she’d named her own son ‘the most beautiful name I have ever heard’ - I thought it was awful. So the moral of that story is you won’t please everyone! And why should you? You get to name your son the most wonderful name you can think of, just like we all did.